Vitamin D and Severe Asthma Exacerbations — SAVED-P  

Asthma Clinical Trial

Official title: A Phase I Trial for Children With Vitamin D Insufficiency and High Risk of Severe Asthma Exacerbations

Status Recruiting

Clinical Trial Summary

This study of vitamin D is designed to assess both the safety and efficacy of potential doses (2,000 IU/day and 4,000 IU/day) in raising a vitamin D level to a normal range in a short period of time (e.g. 4 weeks or less) compared to 200 IU/day.

In children with vitamin D insufficiency or deficiency who are at risk for severe asthma exacerbations, we hypothesize that both vitamin D supplementation with 4,000 IU/day and 2,000 IU/day will safely achieve normal vitamin D levels, but that the higher dose (4,000 IU/day) will result in a larger proportion of subjects achieving this level within 4 weeks.

Clinical Trial Description

Asthma is a major public health problem in the United States and worldwide. Severe disease exacerbations account for the majority of costs attributable to asthma in the United States. Vitamin D is an essential nutrient with significant immuno-modulatory effects. The observation that vitamin D insufficiency and asthma share risk factors such as urban residence, obesity, and African American ethnicity has generated significant interest in exploring a link between these two conditions.

This is an 8-week randomized, double-masked, controlled trial of vitamin D3 (2,000 IU/day and 4,000 IU/day) to achieve vitamin D sufficiency (a serum 25(OH)D ≥30 ng/ml in 60 school-aged children (ages 6 to 14 years) who have vitamin D insufficiency (a serum 25(OH)D <30 ng/ml) and are at risk for severe asthma exacerbations, but whose asthma that is well-controlled on medium-dose inhaled corticosteroid (ICS) at the end of a 4-week run-in period. ;

Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Safety/Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Double Blind (Subject, Caregiver, Investigator), Primary Purpose: Prevention

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Asthma

• NCT number: NCT01921894
• Study type: Interventional
• Source: University of Pittsburgh
• Contact: Rose Lanzo, BS, RT
• Phone: 412-692-5872
• Email: rose.lanzo@chp.edu
• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: Phase 1
• Start date: August 2013
• Completion date: September 2014